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Researchers reveal potential health risks of deep space travel

Sending a manned mission to Mars requires more than a powerful launch rocket. Prep work also includes learning how a three-year space flight could affect the human body.

8 Mar 2017

New biomarker 'Bim' could help predict optimal treatment for metastatic melanoma patients

Over the past few years, checkpoint blockade immunotherapies have revolutionized cancer treatment and helped many patients who were previously considered untreatable.

8 Mar 2017

New computer models could help researchers to better predict side-effects of drugs

New computer models from North Carolina State University show how a variant of a common protein involved in human immune response binds to the antiviral drug abacavir, causing a severe life-threatening reaction known as the abacavir hypersensitivity syndrome

8 Mar 2017

Penn researchers identify genome-wide changes caused by high-fat diet

By comparing two strains of mice -- one that becomes obese and diabetic on a high-fat diet and another resistant to a high-fat regimen -- researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania identified genome-wide changes caused by a high-fat diet.

8 Mar 2017

Research points to critical role of stress hormone in emergence of PTSD among soldiers

Up to 20 percent of U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan developed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder from trauma experienced during wartime, but new neuroscience research from The University of Texas at Austin suggests some soldiers might have a hormonal predisposition to experience such stress-related disorders.

7 Mar 2017

Study reveals promising new strategy to attack deadly pediatric brain tumor

Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have revealed new insight into how the most deadly pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), may develop.

7 Mar 2017

Researchers identify key mutation that promotes melanoma growth by suppressing immune response

University of California, Irvine researchers have identified a specific mutation that allows melanoma tumor cells to remain undetected by the immune system.

7 Mar 2017

UCI chemists develop cheap, effective way to neutralize deadly snake venom

Chemists at the University of California, Irvine have developed a way to neutralize deadly snake venom more cheaply and effectively than with traditional anti-venom -- an innovation that could spare millions of people the loss of life or limbs each year.

7 Mar 2017

Researchers identify protein biomarker linked to prognosis in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer researchers have identified a protein biomarker expressed on the surface of tumour cells in high-grade serous ovarian cancer, the most common and lethal subtype of the disease.

7 Mar 2017

Researchers show how composition of mitochondrial calcium portal differs based on organs

A heart beat begins with a rush of calcium into the heart cell followed by a burst of energy from the resident mitochondria. These two events occur with each beat.

7 Mar 2017

Virginia Tech researchers move one step closer to understanding heart disease at microscopic level

Researchers are one step closer to understanding heart disease at a microscopic level, a breakthrough that could influence future treatments for millions of people.

7 Mar 2017

Researchers test 'three-hit' theory of autism in mice

Since the first case was documented in the United States in 1938, the causes of autism have remained elusive. Hundreds of genes, as well as environmental exposures, have been implicated in these brain disorders.

7 Mar 2017

Scientists explain phenomenon of exceptional longevity in naked mole-rats

New paper was recently published in one of the most prominent scientific journals: Physiological Reviews. A group of Russian and German biologists and mathematicians that authored the publication was led by profs. Victor Sadovnichii, Vladimir Skulachev and prof. Thomas Hildebrandt.

7 Mar 2017

DNA enhancers switch on colorectal cancer genes to promote tumor growth, study finds

Genetic mutations can increase a person's cancer risk, but other gene "enhancer" elements may also be responsible for disease progression, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

7 Mar 2017

IU study reveals new compounds with potential to boost enzyme that could protect against dementia

A study by Indiana University researchers has identified 24 compounds -- including caffeine -- with the potential to boost an enzyme in the brain shown to protect against dementia.

7 Mar 2017

Researchers identify mechanisms involved in acid pump

Researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, have succeeded in identifying the mechanisms involved in what is known as the acid pump, which at the cellular level pumps acid into the stomach - in some cases leading to gastric ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

7 Mar 2017

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Researchers reveal potential health risks of deep space travel

New biomarker 'Bim' could help predict optimal treatment for metastatic melanoma patients

New computer models could help researchers to better predict side-effects of drugs

Penn researchers identify genome-wide changes caused by high-fat diet

Research points to critical role of stress hormone in emergence of PTSD among soldiers

Study reveals promising new strategy to attack deadly pediatric brain tumor

Researchers identify key mutation that promotes melanoma growth by suppressing immune response

UCI chemists develop cheap, effective way to neutralize deadly snake venom

Researchers identify protein biomarker linked to prognosis in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

Researchers show how composition of mitochondrial calcium portal differs based on organs

Virginia Tech researchers move one step closer to understanding heart disease at microscopic level

Researchers test 'three-hit' theory of autism in mice

Scientists explain phenomenon of exceptional longevity in naked mole-rats

DNA enhancers switch on colorectal cancer genes to promote tumor growth, study finds

IU study reveals new compounds with potential to boost enzyme that could protect against dementia

Researchers identify mechanisms involved in acid pump

Major pledge could lead to new treatments for autism

Research findings could guide development of potent combination therapies for leukemia

Diabetes medication could be effective therapy for aggressive type of breast cancer

New technique can effectively identify cancer-causing substances in urine or blood

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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